Now lunch is done, more #FROG2022 / #FROG22 talks from here in #gamestudies land.

Fascinating paper from Nikita Stulikov, a Russian scholar speaking from Montenegro, on rising totalitarian propaganda usage in Russian game cultures and media. Particularly depressing/interesting use of game images in popular militaristic videos (mask images from games used to hide identities of mercenaries by Russian pop-propaganda groups as one interesting example).

At #FROG2022 (possibly #FROG22) - The Future and Reality of Games conference - this weekend. Ironically given the conference title, I'm here to talk about history later.

So far had a good though very broad keynote giving a view of games as both part of & escape from supermodern/neoliberal society. Unsure I'm sold on the view of game character levelling being an essentially neoliberal (a term I often find sits awkwardly with me) self-improvement paradigm but there was much good food for thought.